That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.
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To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from the good.
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That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.
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The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human act…
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To strike or cast down; to overthrow.
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Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.
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To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly.
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To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.
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To cut off; to separate.
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To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.
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Sir; Mr; Signior; -- a title in Spain, formerly given to noblemen and gentlemen only, but now common to all classes.
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To fix the value of; to rate; to appraise.
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To test by any appropriate method; to inspect carefully with a view to discover the real character or state of; to subject to inquiry or inspection o…
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of Have
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A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
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To take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal.
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A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for…
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See 2d Milt.
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To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…
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Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.
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To examine, as a wound, an ulcer, or some cavity of the body, with a probe.
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of Run
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Taken.
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Same as Weir.
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That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.
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A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified.
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A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.
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A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law.
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To taste.
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To exert physical or intellectual strength for the attainment of; to use efforts to effect; to strive to achieve or reach; to try; to attempt.
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Atrial or special observation, made to confirm or disprove something doubtful; esp., one under conditions determined by the experimenter; an act or o…
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To strive or contend for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to…
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Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, somet…
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To play or game for money or other stake.
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To feel with or use the hands; to handle.
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A game of chance played with dice.
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Same as Arrack.
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To hear again; to try a second time; as, to rehear a cause in Chancery.
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To try (esp. judicially) a second time; as, to retry a case; to retry an accused person.
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Hazard; danger; peril; exposure to loss, injury, or destruction.
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To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard.
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To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
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To make into a verb; to use as a verb; to verbalize.
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of Bat
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Fertile. See Battel, a.
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Having good qualities in the highest degree; most good, kind, desirable, suitable, etc.; most excellent; as, the best man; the best road; the best cl…
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of Bid
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The act of contributing.
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To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.
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An effort made, or exertion of body or mind, for the performance of anything; a trial; attempt; as, to make an essay to benefit a friend.
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To cast, send, to throw from the hand; to hurl; to dart; to emit with violence as if thrown from the hand; as, to fing a stone into the pond.
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A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid.
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Gone.
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The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
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A striving; an effort; a conatus.
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To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.
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Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the former.
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One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…
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To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…
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To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.
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of Run
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of Seek
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The part (usually an iron or steel plate) of a plow which cuts the ground at the bottom of a furrow; a plowshare.
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of Shoot
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To press between two bodies; to press together closely; to compress; often, to compress so as to expel juice, moisture, etc.; as, to squeeze an orang…
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To pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a man with a dagger; also, to thrust; as, to sta…
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Race; stock; generation; descent; family.
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of Strive
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To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
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A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
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The act of trying or testing in any manner.
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To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity; to make to revolve.
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Bad, evil, or pernicious, in the highest degree, whether in a physical or moral sense. See Worse.
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Trial; attempt; essay.
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Trial; attempt; essay.
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Tasting; the appreciation of sapid qualities by the taste organs.
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Tasting; the appreciation of sapid qualities by the taste organs.
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As much as is usually put into the mouth at one time.
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As much as is usually put into the mouth at one time.
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One who makes up samples for inspection; one who examines samples, or by samples; as, a wool sampler.
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One who makes up samples for inspection; one who examines samples, or by samples; as, a wool sampler.
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Race; stock; generation; descent; family.
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Race; stock; generation; descent; family.
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of Taste
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of Taste
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The act of trying or testing in any manner.
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The act of trying or testing in any manner.
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One who tries; one who makes experiments; one who examines anything by a test or standard.
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One who tries; one who makes experiments; one who examines anything by a test or standard.
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To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree.
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Trial; attempt; essay.
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To make trial or experiment of; to try; to endeavor to do or perform (some action); to assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight.
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An exertion of strength or power, whether physical or mental, in performing an act or aiming at an object; more or less strenuous endeavor; struggle…
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To exert physical or intellectual strength for the attainment of; to use efforts to effect; to strive to achieve or reach; to try; to attempt.
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An effort made, or exertion of body or mind, for the performance of anything; a trial; attempt; as, to make an essay to benefit a friend.
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To test by any appropriate method; to inspect carefully with a view to discover the real character or state of; to subject to inquiry or inspection o…
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To perceive by the ear; to apprehend or take cognizance of by the ear; as, to hear sounds; to hear a voice; to hear one call.
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A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for…
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To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the conte…
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One who rends.
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Example; pattern.
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Sick.
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Race; stock; generation; descent; family.
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Distress.
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To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow.
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A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
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